K.N. Joglekar

K.N. Joglekar (died November 1970)[1] was an Indian politician and one of the founding members of Communist Party of India.[2] Then he joined All India Forward Bloc. He became the General Secretary of the All India Forward Bloc from 1948 to 1952.[3] Then he formed Forward Communist Party; in 1952 this party merged with the Communist Party of India.

Portrait of 25 of the Meerut Prisoners taken outside the jail. Back row (left to right): K. N. Sehgal, S. S. Josh, H. L. Hutchinson, Shaukat Usmani, B. F. Bradley, A. Prasad, P. Spratt, G. Adhikari. Middle Row: Radharaman Mitra, Gopen Chakravarti, Kishori Lal Ghosh, L. R. Kadam, D. R. Thengdi, Goura Shanker, S. Bannerjee, K.N. Joglekar, P. C. Joshi, Muzaffar Ahmed. Front Row: M. G. Desai, D. Goswami, R.S. Nimbkar, S.S. Mirajkar, S.A. Dange, S.V. Ghate, Gopal Basak.

In 1929, he was jailed in the Meerut Conspiracy Case.[4]

References
  1. "Remembering S.V. Ghate - Mainstream Weekly". www.mainstreamweekly.net.
  2. NOORANI, A. G. "Origins of Indian communism". Frontline.
  3. "General Secretary : K.N.Joglekar (1948) – AIFB".
  4. Windmiller, Marshall (29 July 2011). "Communism in India". University of California Press – via Google Books.

Sources
  1. Bose, K., Forward Bloc, Madras: Tamil Nadu Academy of Political Science, 1988.


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